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Featured local business - Clubtek

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I was already a regular visitor to Clubtek’s DJ shop when it was in Penge, but now they're even handier in Stanstead Road, just a few doors down from Shannon’s Garden Centre - another old favourite. It’s by no means just for DJs and bands...

Sorrow

Jan

2016

A pair of eyes that have been looking out, slantindicular-fashion, over Geoffrey Road for the last few months, have been given a Bowie makeover.

Know your PLACE

Jan

2016

The team behind PLACE / Ladywell, the new pop-up space opening soon on the site of the old swimming pool, write:We are looking for an artist in residence to help us engage the public, generate interest in using the spaces on offer, and communicate the story that these spaces will be open for people to ...

Nunhead Reservoir: ‘our secret place that apparently’s not very secret’

Jan

2016

As highlighted here before (see Whatever Happened to Nunhead Reservoir?) feelings are still running high about the closing off of the Nunhead Reservoir space, a semi-hidden green oasis overlooking London and now surrounded by a high barbed wire fence. There's now a Friends of Nunhead Reservoir facebook group and 1500 people have already signed a new petition, Open ...

Samba Groovers – Music workshops for young children, Telegraph Hill

Jan

2016

View attachment 3366 View attachment 3366 Come and join us singing, drumming and dancing! Visit www.hitthegrounddrumming.com for more information...

Where are we now? Bowie Tribute Nights at Ivy House and Amersham Arms

Jan

2016

Various Bowie events coming up over next few days and weeks. Tomorrow night - Saturday 16th January - at the Ivy House (40 Stuart Road, Nunhead SE15 3BE) there's The David Bowie Spectacular Send Off. They say: 'Let's give our London boy the send off he deserves. It's simple: let's party to his tunes, have the ...

The Undiscovered Country

Jan

2016

The Evening Standard's Homes & Property section has decided to chuck a bit of fuel on the fire that's raging on this thread, with an article that's been published today but could have been written at any point in the last decade.South East London - the Undiscovered Gem. Greater Brockley is all over it like ...

Retail graveyard: More towers to replace Lewisham big boxes

Jan

2016

South East London blog From The Murky Depths reckons that Loampit Vale's last retail sheds could soon be gone, to be replaced by more tall buildings. They write:A scoping report is looking at a 25 storey tower on the Carpet Right site with 260 flats. Early plans, which are in no way final, see a ...

David Bowie’s Lambeth Murder Ballad

Jan

2016

Tonight at at South East London Folklore Society, Paul Slade (author of 'Unprepared to Die') will be giving a talk on murder ballads'Cheerfully vulgar and revelling in gore, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest 'orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every ...

New George Clarke Series looking for Period Properties being renovated

Jan

2016

Hi, we're looking for people to take part in a new Channel 4 series with the architect George Clarke (Restoration Man/Amazing Spaces). We're interested in hearing from people renovating period properties who might like Georges help with interior design and planning. We're filming from now until June so if you have a project you think ...

Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt

Jan

2016

The Guardian, a newspaper read almost exclusively by urban gentrifiers and written almost exclusively by Hackney newbies, is obsessed with gentrification - write what you know!Their latest feature on the topic is about urban change across a number of international cities, including London. Brockley is the neighbourhood in the spotlight and an anonymous contributor tells ...